The Catcher in the Rye
By: J. D. Salinger
Synopsis
It's Christmas and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school. Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters - shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends.
The city is beautiful and terrible in all its lonesome neon glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.
The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.
— from Penguin Books
The city is beautiful and terrible in all its lonesome neon glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.
The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic coming-of-age story: an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.
— from Penguin Books
Contributor's Note
At heart, loneliness is a failure to communicate, yet this book so succulently & accurately captured my feelings and thoughts at a time when I believed that no one could nor understood.
[Curator's note: This was first published partially in serial form in 1945-46 before being novelised in 1951. Bringing this gem back to light which may have been dusted away as time passed.]
— Wee Pin, P&D
[Curator's note: This was first published partially in serial form in 1945-46 before being novelised in 1951. Bringing this gem back to light which may have been dusted away as time passed.]
— Wee Pin, P&D